MAORIS PUNISHED.
breaking and entering.
(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)
GISBORXE, this day.
A Maori, Dick Raru (*22),, before Mr. Justice Johnston' s Supreme Court for sentence oir t«M> charges of breaking and entering two charges of attempted breaking and?% entering. '>•='
His Honor said accused inust be up now before lie been me a more §erioii*jj ? criminal. Although Maoris in tlip dis*\>triet did not consider probation a#,.lt r v'. penalty, his Honor said he did not hold ) that view, and admitted accused to months' probation.
Sentence of six months' imprisonnjefljfe'r was imposed on Hua Kaiwai (24) breaking and entering a .dwelling./ •.
The judge pointed out that accused had served one month's imprisonment in 1937 (or obscene language, and the police report showed he had done little' workin the last 12 months. Accused was at present serving a term of two month#' for breaking and entering a caravan.
"Probation is apparently no use to you," said the judge when jwssing sentence, which is to begin at the expiry of his present term.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 193, 17 August 1939, Page 12
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